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The "Ham" Set of an Old Ship Operator
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ANOTHER VIEW OF THE OPERATING ROOM
Showing the connection rack (at left), and the high-voltage B battery supply (at right of stove) consisting mainly of flashlight batteries. On cold winter nights the stove is as important a piece of apparatus as any in the room
the BCL (broadcast listener), the transmitter at station 2ABM is silent between seven and ten thirty p. M., excepting when operation is justified by some unusual necessity.
From the ship's clock on the wall to the port holes with which the windows are being replaced, the shack at 2ABM is reminiscent of the commercial experience that goes into the makeup of many amateurs.
Mr. Parsons operated many years ago on the Pole Star plying between Portland, Maine, and New York. Irving Vermilyea, one of the oldest of the old-timers, was his companion operator on the run. However, the radio careers of these gentlemen, as far as the Pole Star is concerned, were terminated somewhat abruptly in 1909, by an altercation between the wireless operators and the captain. The disagreement, whatever it was, came to a head on the homeward trip and Sparks, first and second, determined to sever connections between themselves
and the good ship Pole Star when they reached New York. After leaving the Pole Star, Mr. Parsons forsook the commercial game, and returned to his amateur station, then, long before the days of radio legislation, working on eight hundred meters. However, the lure of the profession was not dampened with Mr. Vermilyea, who, following it for a time on sea, and then on land, rose high in the game. Shortly before the war he was superintendent of the old South Wellfleet station, and is now manager of the transatlantic station at Marion, Massachusetts. But his greatest boast (if honest and deserved self-appreciation can be called a boast) is not of his commercial achievements, or even his peer of present day amateur stations, iZE, but goes far back to the days preceding the Pole Star, when he was, without a dissenting claim, one of the first amateurs in the world!
Vermilyea's first stations, when he signed